You've gotten a lot of responses (at least publicly) that say to work
on "k" tonguing everything in order to speed up your double tongue. Well,
I'm gonna go a different route...

I saw Chris Gekker in a master class in Louisiana this spring and the
subject of multiple tonguing came up. His suggestion was to not worry about
the multiple tongue technique but to instead work on slowly getting your
SINGLE tongue to a relatively rapid level (he said he has his students
work to ST 16th notes at quarter = 120). His theory (which he got from
Ghitalla) is that once the ST is fast enough the double tongue (or triple)
will be there.

My own take on this, especially after watching the Mr. Adam videos (see
www.roth-music.com for more info), is that an extremely rapid single tongue
forces the vowel pronunciation to be WAY forward in the mouth so that when
you add the k syllable (or g) it doesn't get "caught" in the throat. Mr.
Adam, in the video, points out on more than one occasion that we can all
sing the opening to the 3rd mvmnt of the Hummel or the "Lone Ranger" (William
Tell Ovt.--Allegro, for those on the other side of the pond) theme with
ease. Why then do we have trouble when it comes to playing it? I think
it's because we focus on the technical aspects rather than on maintaining
our focus on the sound (MUSIC) that we are trying to achieve resulting
in our air shutting down and without air the whole system falls apart.